Barrel-filler



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BARREL PILLBR.

No.v 423,577. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAL SIERSDORFER, OFLOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BARFuaL-FllviLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent lNo. 423,577, dated March 18, 1890.

v Application filed May Z, 1889. Serial No. 309,390. (No model.)

\ Louisville, county of Jeerson, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an automatic gage 'and alarm for apparatus which may be employed for filling barrels, casks, measures, or other vessels.

The invention will first be fully described .with reference to the accompanying drawings, and thenpointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is an axial sectional view of a bar rel-filler embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof.

the compression of the latter thereon.

1 is the cock of a barrelfillelg'having outlet 2, key 3, and exteriorly-screw-threaded inlet 4. The inlet end may be screwed into a thimble 5, which may have flanges 6 7 at each end, the first being milled or paned to serve for holding the thimble, and thesecond having a rounded face to easily entera siphonor other supply-tube and an abrupt rear side to-hold the thimble in thetube by Between the cock and thimble a cup-shaped strainer S may be inserted. It can be removed at will.- The cock is preferably bulged at 9 to enable the key 3 to be Vmade of such size that the opening therein may also be en larged sufficiently to allow free passage to liquid.

10 is a strong wire or plate spring-arm, bent to approximately V shape, and having its ends fixed to the projecting ends of key 3. Normally the key 3 is held closed and the arm lO rests in the position shown `by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The spiral springs l1, fixed at their ends to arm l0 and the cock 1, hold the parts in this position. When, however, the outlet 2 has been placed in the barrel or other vessel to b e filled, the key3 is opened by turning arm 10 over to the posi tion shown in full lines in Fig. 1. It is held in this position bylever 12, which at one end is pivoted to a stud 13 on the cock, and has at the other end a ball 14 and barb or notch 15. This barb engages in a similar one on one end of trigger 16. This trigger is pivoted to a post 1T on the cock, and its other end is capable of insertion into a bent-Wire socket 18 at the top of rod 19, carried by iioat 20, which rides in casing 2l and has its lower end exactly in line with the discharge end of cock l when the parts are in the position shown in full lines. ,Y

It will now be seen that when the barrel is quite full the float 20 will be raised, lifting rod 19 and the long arm of trigger 16, disconnecting said trigger from lever 12, and so allowing the springs 1 14 to throw said lever and the arm 10 into the position shown in dotted lines, thus closing the -key and arresting the flow of liquid. At the same time the ball of lever 12 strikes a bell 22, carried by the cock, and so gives warning of the filling of the barrel. When the ball has struck, it is thrown away from the bell by bent spring 23, fixed to stud 13 in position to be struck by the lever 12.

When the apparatus is to be used for lilling measures, there may be screwed to the discharge end of the cock a strong platespring 24, adapted to grasp the edge of a measure.

Although the cock is properly made of the shape shown with the discharge end at an inclination to the axis of the main part of the cock, so that the float may be more readily placed in vertical position when in the barrel, it is obvious that any other shape may be employed.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what l claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination, with the. cock having l key 3 vand the bell 22, of the lever 10 and spring for operating said lever 10, a lever having a barb and a ball on one end adapted to strike said bell, a trigger for holding said lever down on the spring 10, the stud 13, to

which said lever is pivoted, and the spring 23, secured to said stud between the pivot of said lever and the bell and adapted to be struck by said lever as the latter I iies toward the bell, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of cock l, key 3, key' releasing devices, and spring-arm 24, fixed to the discharge end of said cock, substautially as and for the purposes set forth.l

MICHAEL SIERSDORFER.

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